I kept telling Caleb we should write some of this down. The Saturdays, the people, the things that get fixed and the things that don't. So this is that.
I'm Caleb. My wife Sarah and I started this little corner of the internet because we kept taking pictures of stuff in the driveway and didn't really have anywhere to put them.
I run a landscaping company. Spent a lot of years on crews working high-end properties, a couple NASCAR guys' places out toward Mooresville and a few others, before I went out on my own. Sarah went to App State for teaching and now stays home with our kids. Her dad raced short-track for years up at Wilkesboro and Hickory, and the radio in the garage was his father's before that. So the race on Saturday isn't a new thing for us. It's just always been there.
Most weekends I'm under a hood and Sarah's got the smoker going. Friends drift in and out. Crank finds shade. The duck gets into something he shouldn't. That's about the size of it.
If you need us, write Sarah.
Throttle & Rust is a work of fiction. Caleb and Sarah Whitaker are characters. The property, the truck, the dog, the duck, and the people who turn up at the fire were invented, and the journal entries are stories rather than reporting.
The writing and most of the photography are made with AI tools, directed and edited by a person, and reviewed before anything goes up. Nothing here is a photograph of a real family.
Real places do turn up. Happy Valley, the Yadkin, North Wilkesboro, Hickory, and a handful of businesses around the North Carolina foothills are real, and they get named the way you would name them in conversation. A mention is not an endorsement and does not imply any affiliation. Where a business has actually worked with us, the entry says so plainly. Real racing history stays inside what the record supports.
If you own or run a place named here and would rather not be, write to sarah@throttleandrust.com and it comes down. No argument and no delay.